Chair of Pathology Appointed Director of the NYU Medical Scientist Training Program

Dean and CEO Robert I. Grossman, M.D., and Steven B. Abramson, M.D., Sr. Vice President and Vice Dean for Education, Faculty and Academic Affairs for NYU Medical Center, announced that David Roth, M.D., Ph.D., Chairman of the Department of Pathology and the Irene Diamond Professor of Immunology, has been appointed Director of the NYU Medical Scientist Training Program (M.S.T.P.—also known as the M.D./Ph.D. program), succeeding Rodney E. Ulane, Ph.D.

In their announcement, Deans Grossman and Abramson noted:

"We would like to take this opportunity to thank Dr. Ulane for his leadership of the M.S.T.P. over the past few years. Since his arrival in 2004, Rod has enhanced vertical integration within the program, created a peer student advising program, involved faculty at Washington Square, offered more opportunities for our students to conduct research in various fields of expertise, and recruited several classes of outstanding M.D./Ph.D. students. We thank Rod for his contributions to our Medical Center and wish him the best in his future endeavors.

"In training physician-scientists, the M.S.T.P. is at the very frontier of translational research, and Dr. Roth brings extraordinary qualifications both as scientist and teacher to his new role, not to mention his leadership expertise as Chairman of Pathology. An Investigator in the Program in Molecular Pathogenesis at the Kimmel Center for Biology and Medicine at the Skirball Institute, he has sustained a remarkable trajectory of seminal discoveries in the area of genomic stability and lymphomagenesis. As an educator, he has consistently won student-initiated and professional awards for his clear and enthusiastic teaching style, including an Innovative Teaching Award from the American Medical Association. David also served as Director of two graduate programs at Baylor College of Medicine.

"Since joining NYU in late 2002, David has helped revamp the Immunology graduate student curriculum, won a Teacher of the Year award from the medical students for his contributions to the medical Immunology course, and-with a talented team of Pathology faculty-started a new Pathobiology graduate program to provide clinical knowledge to Ph.D. students interested in pursuing translational research. He was named Chairman of the Department of Pathology in 2004.

"As anyone who knows David can attest, he is brimming with energy and fresh ideas-a genuine role model for physician-scientists in training. The appointment of such an accomplished, charismatic leader provides clear evidence, we think, of the depth of our commitment to the NYU M.S.T.P. and of our determination to make it the very model of excellence."